WHAT IS A GAPI - (Gabinete de Apoio à Promoção da Propriedade Industrial)?

The purpose of a GAPI - an Office for the Support and Promotion of Industrial Property - is to provide an information service and to stimulate the promotion of industrial property, with a view to strengthening the competitiveness of Portuguese companies by encouraging and protecting difference. Other goal is to provide support in the entrepreneurial area, by giving simple tools to develop the initial idea. The Portuguese Patent and Trademark Office (INPI), understanding the regional importance of the University of Évora and Fundação Luis de Molina, invited these two institutions to participate in a collaborative protocol. By setting up a GAPI within the partner institutions involved in this project, competences will be developed to provide decentralised support to companies and other entities at a professional level.

The Mission

To collaborate with R&D institutions in the protection of their intellectual assets. To contribute to strengthening innovation and competitiveness in companies by encouraging and protecting difference. Provide support to the innovative initiatives, giving information about the national programs to entrepreneurship.

Goals

To promote and publicise the modalities and the frameworks of industrial property. To disseminate information on the legal status of industrial property rights in national and international terms.

Target Organisations (in the Alentejo Region)

Higher education establishments; business and commercial associations; companies and similar entities.

Our Actions

• Dissemination of the rules that guide the several industrial property modalities, at the level of both the technical and the administrative requirements, and the costs;
• Information about the legal status of industrial property rights;
• Promotion of activities on the theme of industrial property (conferences, seminars, workshops);
• Information and technical support relevant to fulfilling register requests:
  • Patents;
  • Utility Models;
  • Topographies of semiconductor products;
  • Industrial Designs;
  • Trademarks of Products and Services;
  • Rewards;
  • Name and Insignia of an Establishment;
  • Logotypes;
  • Appellation of Origin and Geographical Indication.
• Provide information about the national programs to stimulate the entrepreneurship
• Provide entrepreneurial tools: Kit do Empreendedor
• Services of Market Analysis and Economic Research
• Informations about how to create a new company from the start
• Formation in Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Project Management. Consultancy in Project Management
• Services of information about how to finance and support the R&D (This service its provided with the support of OTIC University of Évora)